By Jessica Debbas

EUGENE, Ore. --It was a give and take process, finding a way that both disc golf players and avid runners could share the open space at Alton Baker Park.

"Everybody's got to play in the sand box together," said Sarah Ticer, runner. "I think it was a great compromise actually."

"I think it's a win win for both parties for both the runners and us disc golfers," said Tobiah Orinmoshier, disc golf player.

But it took some sacrifices.

The original 18-hole disc golf course design overlapped with Pre's trail, an iconic running course, which received much resistance from the local track community and the Prefontaine family.

So in order to be able to play here, the course designer eliminated the section that required players to walk across the trail, making it a now a 13-hole game.

"It makes a little bit of a difference, obviously if we would of had our choice we would have wanted an 18-hole course to stay permanently but like I said it's a compromise," said Orinmoshier.

Some players believe taking away part of the course makes a bigger difference than you'd think.

"It's like, would you like us to make you a trail and take a sixth of it and cut it off and say....a circle track and then the last sixth of it you can't run on?" said Mckenzie Baldwin, disc golf player.

But most disc golfers are just glad they have another place to enjoy their hobby in Eugene.

'I'm not even going to be picky, honestly I'd be happy with nine too, just to have another course, another option," said Kyrstin Trimm, disc golf player.

On Saturday the the Eugene Disc Golf Club hosted a tournament fundraiser for Food for Lane County at Alton Baker Park.

All entry fees went to the food bank.